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Tag: Amazon ECS

Improving deployment visibility for Amazon ECS services

When deploying software, it’s critical to have visibility into all stages of the deployment process. Knowing the status of ongoing deployments, troubleshooting issues when things go wrong, and having an audit trail of past deployments are essential for ensuring a safe and reliable release process. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now provides enhanced observability […]

How Infinitium reduced fraud detection time by 95% with Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate on AWS Graviton

This post was created in collaboration with Infinitium Engineering Team. Introduction Infinitium (a Euronet Company) is a leading digital payments company in Southeast Asia, specializing in secure online payment solutions and risk management services. With a strong presence across the Asia Pacific region, Infinitium offers cutting-edge technologies such as 3D Secure (3DS) authentication, fraud detection […]

Migrating from AWS App Mesh to Amazon ECS Service Connect

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to discontinue AWS App Mesh, effective September 30th, 2026. Until this date, existing AWS App Mesh customers will be able to use the service as normal, including creating new resources and onboarding new accounts via the AWS CLI and AWS CloudFormation. Additionally, AWS will continue to provide […]

Accelerating development feedback loops with AWS CDK hotswap deployments for Amazon ECS

Introduction Culture Amp is an employee experience platform that provides the insights into employee engagement, performance, and development that organizations need to build a category-defining culture. Culture Amp’s mission is to create a better world of work. Developer feedback loops An efficient developer feedback loop is a critical part of an effective development process – […]

Announcing software version consistency for Amazon ECS services

Note: This blog post has been updated to reflect a change on 12th September 2024. Amazon ECS no longer modifies the containerImage field found in the DescribeTask or Task Metadata output. As part of the initial ECS software version consistency release the container image tag imageUri:tag was replaced with the container image digest imageUri@digest, this […]

Proactive scaling of Amazon ECS services using Amazon ECS Service Connect Metrics

Introduction This post discusses Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect, a capability that provides a secure and scalable way to connect different Amazon ECS service deployments. This enables seamless communication between micro-services while reducing the operational overhead. It provides features such as service discovery, load balancing, and network traffic metrics. This post primarily […]

Windows Containers on AWS Fargate: Launch time improvements

We launched AWS Fargate support for Windows Server containers on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) in October 2021 to remove the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing the underlying host operating system (OS). This has enabled customers to run Windows containers without having to patch, scale, and harden the Windows OS, using the serverless, pay-as-you-go compute […]

Use Ansible to bootstrap external container instances with Amazon ECS Anywhere

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. Within Amazon ECS there is a concept known as Capacity, which is the infrastructure where your containers run. Amazon ECS provides multiple options: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in the AWS Cloud, AWS […]

Applying Generative AI to CVE remediation – early vulnerability patching in Continuous Integration Pipelines

Cloud technologies are a rapidly evolving landscape. Securing cloud applications is everyone’s responsibility, meaning application development teams are needed to follow strict security guidelines from the earliest development stages, and to make sure of continuous security scans throughout the whole application lifecycle. The rise of generative AI enables new innovative approaches for addressing longstanding challenges with […]

Unlocking AWS Fargate feature for attaching Amazon EBS Volumes to ECS Tasks

Unlocking AWS Fargate feature for attaching Amazon EBS Volumes to ECS Tasks

Introduction Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has now enhanced its functionalities by integrating support for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume attachment to Amazon ECS tasks. This feature simplifies using Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate with Amazon EBS. Amazon ECS facilitates seamless provisioning and attachment of EBS volumes to ECS tasks on both […]